The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
Weather Crop Bulletin for the Week
Ending Saturday, May Z, 1887,


Weather Crop Bulletin for the Week
Ending Saturday, May 3, 1887.
WASHINGTON. May S.-General Greedy,
Chief Signal officer, has arranged to issue,
beginning with to-day, a special weekly
bulletin, with the view of promptly plac-
ing before the public each Monday morn
ing reliable information relative to the
climatic conditions in the agricultural dis
ta;cts of the country. 1t is believed that
these bulletins, containing the deficiencies
or excess relative to the temperatures and
rainfalls during the growing season, will
serve as a reliable basis for determining
the conditions favorable or unfavorable for
the growing crop. Following is the
weather crop bulletin for the week ending
Saturday, May Z, 1887:
"SIGNAL OFFICE WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, d, c., May s, 1887.
Temperature: During the present year,
commencing with January 1 and ending
May /, the weather has been colder than
usual in the STATES bordering on the Allan
TIC coast, and from New England westward
over the great lakes, Upper Mississippi and
Missouri Valleys to the Rocky Mountains,
the regions of greatest cold being In the
States bordering on the great lakes and
thence westward to the Missouri River,
over which the aggregate efficiency OF the
daily mean temperature from January to
dare ranged from 200 to 400 degrees, an av-
erage daily deficiency of from about l 5 to
degrees.
I'm Northern New England and in the
South Atlantic States the total deficiency
in temperature ranged from 100 degrees to
800 degrees, or an average of from about
] degree to 2 degrees colder than usual.
The weather has been warmer than usual
since January 1 in the East and West
Gulf States, Tennessee, Kentucky, West
Virginia and in the northern portions OF
Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, the aggregate
excess of the daily mean temperatures from
January l to date ranging from 100 degrees
to 200 degrees over the whole region
named.
During the week ending May7, 1887, the
temperature has been warmer than the
average for the week in all districts east of
the Rocky Mountains, excepting the Flor
ida Peninsula and Texas The increase of
temperature over the normal for the week
IN the wheat and corn regions north of the
| 10th parallel of latitude has averaged about
| so degrees, and this excess has therefore
| caused rapid advance of the season over
| the region where it was much retarded. In
| the South the region of excessive tempera-
| ture has received a still further increase,
| and along the Atlantic coast the excess of
| temperature for the week ranged from %
| to so degrees, thereby reducing the de-
ficiency in the temperature for the season
in these States and giving conditions ia
/ voTable to agricultural interests.
| Rainfall during the season from Janu.
airy to May /, 1887: Since January 1
there has been large deficiency in rainfall
| in the Northern States, ranging from six to
| nine inches in the Gulf States and interior
| of the South Atlantic States. The def
| cheney in the grain regions of the North.
| west has been slight, ranging from one to
three inches in the Lower Missouri Valley
and averaging about one inch in the Upper
| Mississippi Valley. The only regions show
ing an excess of precipitation for the sea
/ son are as follows: Northern New Eng
land, the Hudson River Valley, the Upper
| Ohio Valley, stations on Lake Erie and in
/ Eastern Michigan and in the western por-
| tons of Kansas and Nebraska. The great
| est excess, ranging from three to four
| inches, for the season, covers Northern and
| Western Ohio, the western portions OF
| hciencies in the rainfall for the season are
| reported from Central and Southern Cali
fornia.
"During the past week the rainfalls in the
/ northern portions of Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Dakota, aud in the West Gulf
| States, in Central Mississippi, Northern
4 Georgia and Central Alabama, have been
1 signify ABOVE the average Tor the week
the heaviest rainfalls occurring in Eastern
| Texas, Arkansas and Southern Missouri,
| thus, in a measure, alleviating the drought
| previously existing in these sections. In
| Tie western portions of New York and
l Pennsylvania, and In Northern Ohio, the
rainfall for the week has served to increase
| the excess of rainfall already reported in
| those sections. 1t will thus be seen that
the season, to date, in the vario1s sections
| of the country, has been about as follows
In the grain regions of the North it has
been comparatively cold and dry; in the cot
ton regions to the west of Georgia, warm and
unusually dry; in the cotton and rice re-
| gions on the South Atlantic coast, cold and
comparatively dry; in the tobacco regions
| of Virginia and North Carolina, cold and
| dry; in the tobacco regions of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Pennsylvania, the weather
has been warmer, with rainialls slightly
| less than usual except in Mort hern Ken
lucky, where the rainfall was slightly in
excess.
From the reports received, it appears
that the meteorological conditions OF the
| past week have had the effect OF rapidly
advancing the season in those sections
! where it had been previously retarded.
"a. w. GREEDY,
''Chief Signal Officer"